Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Kimball Midwest

Columbus, OH · ~1,365 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kimball Midwest runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Kimball Midwest: 1.9 TCR = 86% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kimball Midwest safety composite

Kimball Midwest scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2017→2021

Kimball Midwest injury rate improved

Kimball Midwest's TCR fell 1.3 from 2.6 in 2017 to 1.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.6 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #21/39
  • PHOTO Central MO Field Sal…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 120 inj
  • SIZE ~1,365 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central MO Field Sales - PLANO TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kimball Midwest in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Kimball Midwest averages 1.9 TCR (86% of the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Kimball Midwest TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=1.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Kimball Midwest falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 39 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Ohio.

Kimball Midwest (1,365 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kimball Midwest
Kimball Midwest (1,365 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Kimball Midwest has more employees than the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2021 1.3 1.0 20 2 0
2020 1.1 0.4 15 1 0
2019 2.4 1.4 31 0 0
2018 1.9 1.2 21 1 0
2017 2.6 1.0 33 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · OH · Columbus

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Central MO Field Sales - PLANO TX 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chown Hardware 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reading Fulfillment Center 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S.P.E.P. Acquisition Corp. 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nationwide Children's Hospital Behavioral Health Pavilion 1,368 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Jewish Hospital 1,361 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3804 - West Jefferson OH DC 1,373 FTE
STATE-SIZE FirstEnergy Utilities Support 1,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Constantine Plant 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Refrigerated Milwaukee Brown Deer Road 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Integrated Turf Solutions 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR d'Escoto, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4813-48130009-Freeman Expo Las Vegas a 1,365 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 15/1G 1,365 FTE
NAT-SIZE Varoa - Roanoke Hub 1,365 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bienville Holdings LTD 1,365 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.